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“Today marks the first day of the new fiscal year for Thomas Aquinas College,” President Michael F. McLean and President-elect Paul J. O’Reilly wrote in a letter to benefactors this morning. “And we begin this new year — our fiftieth anniversary — in sound financial shape, thanks to the tremendous generosity of the many friends who contributed to the 2021 Friends Week of Giving.”

With contributions still trickling in, some 571 friends of the College have contributed $540,946 to date. Combined with $500,000 in lead matching gifts, that amounts to $1,040,946 — a 33 percent increase over last year’s total. The College’s friends have contributed more than $40,000 above the Week’s ambitious goal of $1 million — enough to provide financial aid for 58 TAC students.
 
The new fiscal year will be historic for Thomas Aquinas College in many ways. It will be the first with four classes of students on the New England campus, which will host its first-ever Commencement in the spring. In California, the Pope St. John Paul II Athletic Center will be completed this fall. And on both coasts the College will be celebrating 50 years of God’s providence, made manifest in the continued and loyal support of its friends.
 
“We appreciate that gifts to the Week of Giving are made sacrificially and that, in making them, you are foregoing other important goods in your life or that of your family,” wrote Drs. McLean and O’Reilly. “We are humbled that you would make this sort of sacrifice for TAC’s students, and we pledge to make sure that your gift is put to prudent and good use in service of the College’s unique program of Catholic liberal education.”